The Guitar Hour Podcast

Beebs

Quayle

Jake Willson

Quayle Boller Guitar Battle

96: Our Social Media Mishaps Plus Musical Gatekeeping Sep 19, 2019

Show notes

Please consider supporting us over on Patreon! The boys take a break from modes, legato and practise to share some of their musical social media mishaps over the years.

They explore the blurring of the lines between private and public personas and the potential career pitfalls that can come from musicians doing this.

In other news, (completely ignoring the above sentence) Jake has a hangover and Beebs has accidentally locked his wife in the kitchen.

Thanks to all our awesome Patrons for helping us make the show!

Podcast Producer and Practise Posse

Andrew FrenchJiri PopekNorman TaylorRodaidh MackayTim BennettZach Loss

Episode Links Tim Minchin's Storm

TGHP Show LinksSupport Us On Patreon www.theguitarhour.com Facebook discussion group YouTube Twitter Instagram Old Live stream on Tom's YT channel

Beebswww.davidbeebee.com Instagram YouTube

Quaylewww.tomquayle.co.uk YouTube Instagram

Willsonwww.jakewillson.co.uk Instagram YouTube

Dan Smithwww.dansmithguitarist.co.uk Instagram YouTube

95: Practise Strategies - One Thing Intensively Or Many Things Moderately Sep 12, 2019

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Please consider supporting us over on Patreon! The podigal son returns! After several months away from the mic, Dan Smith rejoins the lads to talk about practise strategies. Inspired by Jake's recent deep dive into 'Miss Jones' they weigh up the pro's and cons of working intensely on one thing vs. many different things in moderation. They also reflect on their own experiences and break through periods of guitar development, follow up on last weeks legato madness and Beebs has the verdict on the Laney FRFR amp modelling cab experience.

Thanks to all the wonderful patrons helping us make the show this week! Producer level or Podcast Practise Posse level gets your name read out on the show and down below in the notes.

The first Practise Posse live stream is set for September 29th 8pm UK time, bonus episode should drop earlier that week and there's a lot more special content to come in the meantime. Cheers guys!

Producer Level & Practise Posse Patrons Andrew FrenchJiri PopeckNorman TaylorRodaidh MackayTim BennettZach Loss

Episode Links & Pictures:

Swing Commander - In Transit

Sim1 Pedal

Joe Diorio - Gesture Playing

Tom's Dawsons Practise Video

TGHP Show Links

Support Us On Patreon

Facebook discussion group

YouTube

Twitter

Beebs

Quayle

Jake Willson

www.dansmithguitarist.co.uk

YouTube

Dan Smith

Support The Guitar Hour Podcast on Patreon

YouTube

94: Legato & Improvisation - Speed & Mental Processes (Patreon Launch) Sep 05, 2019

Show notes

Huge week as the guys launch the Podcast Patreon! They also follow up on the FBDG poll and Beebs reports back on his first use of the Laney FRFR cab in the wild.

Deep dive this week comes off a discussion group post re: improvisation and the speed of technique and mental processes. Beebs puts this to Tom framed around legato technique, and they all delve into the nature of improvising at high levels of speed and get into the development and some back story of Tom's landmark modern legato tutorials.

Thanks for listening and all your support!

(This weeks after hours banter bus: Ron Burgundy's Phantom Fart)

Episode Links & Pictures:

Neural DSP Nolly & Plini

Laney LFR - FRFR Active Guitar Cab

Improvisation - It's Nature & Practice

Tom's Modern Legato Series - Part 2

Beebs' Pathways To Jazz

Jake's JTC Masterclasses

Show Links

Beebs

Quayle

Jake Willson

Tom's Modal Harmony Tutorial

93: When Is Modal Harmony Not Modal Harmony? (Email) Aug 29, 2019

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The team convene deep down the harmony hole to discuss a listener email about modal harmony. They discuss a specific example to do with Phrygian and answer the question when is modal harmony, not modal harmony? Also there's a listener poll to check out in the discussion group and tease of a new TGHP project.

Episode Links & Jake's Reccs

Matt's Email

Schoenberg Theory Of Harmony

Ron Grow Hearing & Writing Music

Show Links

Beebs

Quayle

Jake Willson

Beebee's 3 x 3 Spotify Playlist

92: 3 Albums & 3 Players That Changed Our Lives Aug 22, 2019

Show notes

After a few weeks of high emotions and even higher music theory, Beebs, Quayle and Willson attempt to take things easy talking about the 3 albums and 3 players that have shaped their lives.

However! This is not before Jake pulls everyone into a half hour musing on free will, musical determinism and where our ideas come from. This was an honest attempt to answer a sincere listener email in follow up to the Rick Beato interview last week!

What's your 3 x 3? Tell us in the facebook discussion group, over on er...facebook!

Thanks to everyone for listening to the podcast, and a warm welcome to all the new listeners :)

Links To All Choices

Quayle's 3 x 3 Spotify Playlist

Jake's 3 x 3 Spotify Playlist

Jake's 3rd Choice Mahler 5 On Youtube

Jake's Pedal Demo's - Ibanez CS9

Nick Jennison

Jonathan Kreisberg TGH Interview

Show Links

Beebs

Quayle

Jake Willson

Rick's YT Channel Everything Music

91: Rick Beato Interview - Ear Training, Million Subs, The Beato Book Aug 15, 2019

Show notes

Tom Quayle & Beebee sit in the virtual armchairs for a chat with one of our most requested podcast guests - Rick Beato. They discuss Rick's incredibly diverse skill set, musical background and rise to YouTube phenomenon (he will have just ticked over a million subs as you read this!) before delving back deep into the ear training topic and Rick's upcoming ear training course. There's word of The Beato Book v3 & Club and of course, Beebs says the words fretboard visualisation at least once..

We always say this, but.. it's a great one! Strap in and enjoy :)

Episode & Show Links

www.rickbeato.com

The Beato Book & Webstore

The Beato Club

Rick on Instagram

Beebee - Pathways To Jazz

Quayle - Modern Legato

Joe Mulholland Website & Music

Beebs

Quayle

90: Berklee Harmony - Interview With Joe Mulholland & Tom Hojnacki Aug 08, 2019

Show notes

Beebee's lost in the Italian mountains, Tom is releasing his fire hydrant of harmony in Spain and Jake, well we don't know what Jake's up to this week...but for someone who's not a Northerner he spends a lot of time down pit.

So until the team return we have a fascinating pre-recorded interview with Joe Mulholland and Tom Hojnacki, authors of the Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony. This conversation delves into the background, context and scope of the book, harmony at Berklee, the source of conflation for tonal and modal harmony problems in guitarland and much more.

This is a shorter episode than normal, but it gets heavy and spawns some new avenues to spiral down with further research, reading and exploration. Huge thanks to Joe and Tom for coming on.

(Apologies for the occasional structure and audio issues on this episode, there were a few technical glitches which resulted in some unsalvageable audio!)

Tom Hojnacki At Berkleei

Show Links

Beebs

Quayle

Jake

Jack's YouTube Video On Mental Health & Social Media

89: Jack Gardiner Interview & Mental Health Revisited Aug 01, 2019

Show notes

Beebs & Quayle welcome the incredible Jack Gardiner to the podcast to talk about playing Satch-n-Vai songs on tour with Stu Hamm, China Crisis, his current projects and upcoming E.P.

There are some Beebee nerd questions in the middle before the big topic..

The guys revisit the area of mental health and musical identity in light of Jacks' recent (and excellent) YouTube video, where in he opens up with his struggles of the of the last few years and recent return to social media. This is a wonderful episode and I (Beebs breaking the wall here) want to thank Jack for having such an open, honest conversation about this stuff.

The previous episode we did on this, 52. was of tremendous help for my own inner workings (Beebee breaking the wall here) and judging from the feedback and response to it, was relatable and helpful for many of you out there. We pick things back up here framed around Jack's experience, however the conversation is multifaceted and the result is a rich discussion on the ups, down and managing when the wobbles come. Thanks dude.

Episode Links

TGHP - 52 Mental Health & Guitar Identity

Musicians Mental Health Help Lines

Jack Gardiner

Jack's Website & Lessons

Jack on Instagram

Jack on YouTube

Show Links

Beebs

Quayle

88: Measuring Your Guitar Progress & The Edge Of Ability Jul 25, 2019

Show notes

Quayle, Willson & Beebee reconvene for a follow up on playing consistency, which, quickly turns into a discussion on how to measure ones guitar progress in a healthy objective manner.

Beebs guinea pigs an example of Giant Steps with legato and discovers that consistency may not be the issue after all. Light is shed on the effects of always playing at the edge of ones ability.

Finally the guys cover some Facebook discussion group chat and ponder why students find descending scales harder than ascending.

Episode Links

Pathways To Jazz Vol 1

Modern Legato Part 3

Practise Toolkit

Show Links